7 quotes
Sometimes the obvious answer is the true answer.
The Mortal Word (2018)
You can’t trust people in power, dearie. They’ll say whatever they want, all the witnesses will be paid to agree, and then you’re behind bars till the end of your days. Or worse.
The Mortal Word (2018)
First things first. Get the facts, then decide what to do next. And hope that there is a next.
The Mortal Word (2018)
What is written can be erased, alas.
The Mortal Word (2018)
And, really, Erda had put the basic problem in a nutshell. Everyone here viewed damage to their own particular interest as more significant than damage to anyone else’s. Whatever the scale of the damage.
The Mortal Word (2018)
Walking through a library—any library—as they made their way to the exterior had its usual comforting, balancing effect on Irene. It was a reassurance that such places existed and that they would continue, even if she herself was as temporary as any other human.
The Mortal Word (2018)
Irene didn’t need Vale’s deductive skills to tell her she was in trouble. But there was something liberating about this. She was surrounded by known enemies, not politics. And she didn’t have anyone to worry about—apart from herself.
The Mortal Word (2018)